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Chapter 3 - Planning and grinding levels

The next day he woke up and prepared himself to go to school. After preparation he checked the status window.

Status:

Name: Bhairav Haalahala

Class: Ranger/Gunslinger

Level: 1

Health: 25/25

Experience: 0/10000

Stats:

STR: 15 DEX: 18 CON: 16 INT: 14 WIS: 13 LUCK: 9

Active Skills: Bow shot Lv1, Duel sword slash Lv1, Gun Barrage Lv1

Passive skills: Endurance (Max), Nature heal Lv5

He observed that his health is full. Taking a night rest has refilled his health. The monsters are prevalent not only in dungeons but outside the city and in forests. Since his house is few kilometers from the outskirts of the city he decided to increase his level.

A notification pinged in his head. When he looked at the status window:

Status:

Name: Bhairav Haalahala

Class: Ranger/Gunslinger

Level: 1

Health: 25/25

Experience: 0/10000

Stats:

STR: 15 DEX: 18 CON: 16 INT: 14 WIS: 13 LUCK: 9

Active Skills: Bow shot Lv1, Duel sword slash Lv1, Gun Barrage Lv1

Passive skills: Endurance (Max), Nature heal Lv5

Quest: Increase your Level to 10

Rewards: 800000 experience , +10 to every stat.

Penalty: All Stats reduced by 2

Quest Duration: 6 months

Bhairav felt very happy because he finally had a way to grow strong. He decided to grind levels every night starting today. He knew the bullies would not let him go early so he made a backup plan to get out of school.

After eating breakfast he made his way to school and went directly to class. At lunch time he took his food from canteen and went upstairs.

"System, are there any weapons that I can get?" he asked. The system replied " The basic weapons of your class are already in your inventory. You can check them by calling "Inventory" in your mind".

He did as system told and checked the inventory. In the inventory there is "Wooden Bow (Common)", "Steel Longswords(Common)" and "Hand Gun (Common)"

Though they are under common category he did not care because at least had something rather than nothing.

After eating his food he was about to leave when a group of 5 girls came through the door. He knows these girls. They were all in their class. These girls were all rich.

The girl who is surrounded by other girls is the class representative and top scorer of the class. She was beautiful and had many best qualities except her attitude. Her name is "Harika". He observed her status and she is a Level 20 Spear woman. The remaining 4 girls names were Jyothi Lv14 Rogue, Nikitha Lv16 Barbarian, Vaishali Lv15 Swashbuckler, Taara Lv17 Wizard.

The worst issue is that the class representative Harika is the sister of Venu one of the bullies. She inherited his worst attitude too. When the girls saw Bhairav they had a sarcastic look that indicates they were looking down on him.

The leader took charge and said "Bhairav, you are a waste of space to this school seeing your grades so why do you bother coming?"

Bhairav sighed and didn't reply. The girl Vaishali sneered and shouted "Answer her you fool". Bhairav averted his gaze and decided to ignore them. He took his plate and was about open the door when a basic fire spell hit the door. He evaded the attack.

Taara sarcastically spoke and said "Next time it will be your head". He was keeping his anger in check but these foolish girls are not making it easy. So he did one thing he did not want to do. He turned and shouted "You and your families can go fuck themselves". The smiles of all their disappeared. They got angry and decided to attack.

Bhairav immediately opened the door and threw a smoke bomb towards the girls. He got enough time to escape from there. This is a smoke bomb which he got as a loan from the system. As soon as the girls appeared he asked the system for the smoke bomb for a loan. The loan was Rs10000.

Bhairav cursed those girls because he already had to take a loan. He went to the his class where dungeon exploration teacher has come. He thought "Those bitches are going to suffer in the future".

In the evening he called his mother and told he is going to be late home for next 2 weeks because he has awakened his class. Hearing this she was delighted and encouraged him to raise his levels.

Due to yesterdays conversation she changed her mindset of being too good to others. After the last lecture he immediately asked his combat tactics teacher "Vishnu" to protect him in the evenings since he is being bullied by those rich kids. The teacher accepted that he would leave him at his for another 2 weeks when the final exams are completed. The reason he did not do it before because he felt embarrassed. But now he did not care because he is using his teacher temporarily for his own gain.

That day the teacher gave lift to Bhairav and dropped him at Bhairav's street. After saying goodbyes Bhairav took a bus to the outskirts of Hyderabad. He got down the bus at the nearest bus station and made his way to monster territory by walk.

After walking for 20 minutes he reached the monster territory of goblins. The surroundings are surrounded by barren land and some trees. He saw the level of the goblins and they were level 2. He did not care that their level is higher than him because he felt that higher the level, higher the experience.

He kept his distance and equipped his bow and arrows from the inventory. He decided that he will use all the weapons he has on the goblins so that he would get used to it. Since the system said 6 months is the deadline for reaching level 10 he understood that the experience they are going to give is also very less. The goblins all have 25 health.

Steel arrows: Damage-25

Accuracy: 100%

He equipped steel arrows. He took his aim and aimed at the nearest goblin. He activated dual shot. He pulled the string moderately and released it. The arrow flew and directly hit the goblin. He gained 10 exp. The remaining goblins were alerted and with their weapons charged towards Bhairav.

Bhairav understood that he can accurately kill the goblins. He took another arrow and aimed at the farthest goblin. As soon as he released it with heavy strength it flew and hit the last goblin.

The goblins are 10 meters away when he took 2 arrows and released on the goblins. The goblins tried to defend them using their swords but failed and 2 goblins died. He got 20 exp by killing them. There were nearly 50 goblins approaching him. They swarmed and jumped on Bhairav. Bhairav smiled and took a leap. He jumped nearly 20 meters and equipped three arrows. He released them and they accurately hitting them giving him 30 exp.

He landed a bit away from the goblins. But the goblins didn't give him any time. They ran towards him to kill him. He started equipping 3 arrows and releasing. He continued this for 5 minutes keeping his distance from goblins. His Bow shot skill reached Level 2. As soon as the horde reached him he equipped dual Longswords and started slashing the goblins. He did not care whether he was hit as the damage is only 1 HP due to max endurance. After killing 10 goblins his dual sword slash reached level 2.

He kept slashing and evading. After nearly 15 minutes the goblin horde decreased by half. There are only 25 goblins left and his HP is at 17. Due to his high evasion rate he only got hit 8 times. He decided that he will finish these goblins using the swords. After nearly 15 minutes he finished the remaining 25 goblins. His dual sword slash skill reached level 3. He opened the status and looked at the experience.

Status:

Name: Bhairav Haalahala

Class: Ranger/Gunslinger

Level: 1

Health: 25/25

Experience: 540/10000

Stats:

STR: 15 DEX: 18 CON: 16 INT: 14 WIS: 13 LUCK: 9

Active Skills: Bow shot Lv2, Duel sword slash Lv3, Gun Barrage Lv1

Passive skills: Endurance (Max), Nature heal Lv5

Quest: Increase your Level to 10

Rewards: 800000 experience , +10 to every stat.

Penalty: All Stats reduced by 2

Quest Duration: 6 months

He understood that the gaining of experience may be low but the levelling of skills is going at a faster pace. This is completely different from "Infinite worlds" because in the game gaining Experience is much easy compared to increase of stats and levelling up of skills.

He decided to test if stats will increase at the same pace as the skills. When he looked at the dead goblins he observed that there is a gold glow. The goblin corpses disappeared into thin air and there are nearly 200 gold coins all over the field along with it Health potions and Mana Potions. Some equipment were scattered all over the field. Though he did not need Mana Potions he still kept them because he did not know what future holds.

He asked the system to collect gold, Health and Mana Potions. It did it within an instant. He decided to collect the equipment himself so that he can equip useful equipment himself.

Leather Armor:

light armor (armor)

AC: 11

Category: Items

Item Rarity: Standard

Weight: 10

Poison Arrows: Number-100

Category: Items

Damage:33

Accuracy:100%

The target is affected by poison and loses 4 Hp every minute.

Bracers of archery:

Category: Item

Item Rarity: Uncommon

Helm of disguise:

Category: Items

Item Rarity: Uncommon

Has a spell attached to it. When the user wills to hide his identity it will automatically masks the identity of the user.

These four items caught his attention since they are useful for his class along with his future endeavors he decided to equip them immediately. There are other equipment but are not useful for his class so he decided to keep them in the inventory and sell them afterwards.

As soon as he put them in the inventory he heard two different roars. When he looked left two gigantic goblins came from the darkness. One is a Goblin champion and other is a goblin king.

He could not understand one thing. Why would the final boss goblin king come along with the champion?

He thought for few seconds and the put the thoughts on back of his mind. He decided to test the hand guns. He took out two handguns and equipped them.

The guns are Glock -17 widely used by high personnel. He worried about one thing though as he did not have bullets in the inventory.

He observed the stats of Goblin champion and Goblin king:

Name: Goblin Champion

Level: 12

Weapon: Giant Axe

HP: 250/250

Name: Goblin King

Level: 20

Weapon: Giant Hammer

HP: 780/780

Seeing the stats he sighed not because he was afraid. He sighed because it is going to take a long time to take them down as knowing them they may have unknown tricks up their sleeve.

But something else happened there. Goblin King roared at champion and only champion ran to attack Bhairav.

Bhairav smiled at what was happening. He understood that as a king it has its pride to be the last opponent. The champion nearly approached attacked Bhairav with the axe. Bhairav jumped back and shot two bullets from his two guns.

Goblin champion sensed the danger and jumped aside but one of the bullets hit the left shoulder and it started bleeding. It roared with pain. When he saw the HP of champion it decreased 30 HP of the champion.

Then he looked at his guns and thought they definitely are overpowered. Without caring for anything he let the bullets flow from his guns. The goblin champions body got struck with 8 bullets even when Bhairav only fired 5 bullets from each gun. It could not evade due to high accuracy of Bhairav.

It died immediately and its body vanished. He saw nearly 90 gold coins and long swords after its body disappeared. He did not go towards them since the king is still waiting. When he opened the status he saw he got 800 Xp and his experience reached 1340.

The king roared and started casting a spell. Bhairav observed and started firing the bullets but it was of no use since the agility of goblin king is very high. It still chanted when evading bullets.

After chanting it released the spell and Bhairav tried to evade by running away but still got hit. He was afflicted by Blind curse. So for nearly 2 minutes he will be blind to attacks from Goblin King. He cursed his luck because if the king hadn't cast a spell which would have caused status effects he would have evaded the spell since DEX is high.

He didn't know what to do since he cannot see. He did not have any restoration potions so this could prove difficult for him. He decided to use his senses to evade goblin king attacks for 2 minutes. The goblin king started running towards Bhairav. When it is nearly 10 meters away Bhairav shot a bullet and it accurately hit its leg. It roared with pain and its speed slowed down. It gave him an opportunity to run away. It's HP decreased 20 points.

He immediately started running but the king lifted a rock and threw directly at Bhairav. Bhairav got hit and fell down rolling. He felt huge pain on the back but he stood up. His HP decreased 9 points.

The king recovered and came at Bhairav with rage. Bhairav only tried to evade because he wanted to save rest of his bullets until he got back his vision. Depending on the sound he was able to judge where the attack was going to be but he got hit again he lost 3 HP. There was only 30 seconds left when he fired two bullets. Luckily both of them hit the goblin king and his HP decreased 40 points.

Bhairav still evaded the attacks keeping his eye on HP and the timer. He evaded it for 30 seconds and his HP decreased to 10. He had 30 Health potions and 20 Mana potions. He took a Health potion and drank it. It increased his health to 15 HP. He took two more potions and restore his full health.

He put the guns inside and removed the bow and poison arrows. He took aim and shot arrows from a distance. The goblin king could not avoid due to accuracy. The poison status affect appeared on goblin king. Along with damage of 33 it got an extra damage of 4 HP every minute. It could only roar in frustration and try to evade since it's body is weakened by poison. After 10 minutes it health decreased to 200.

It decided to do a final attempt to kill Bhairav. It started casting a spell. Bhairav observing these immediately started throwing arrows but it moved away from the range. "God dammit" shouted Bhairav. He tried to shorten the distance but it was of no use. So he decided to do close combat rather than ranged attacks. He kept the Bow and arrows back in the inventory. He saw that arrows are replenished back to 100.

So he understood that it is a special inventory to replenish weapons stock. He took out the two long swords and immediately ran towards the king. The goblin king was little surprised by sudden change but immediately concentrated on casting. When Bhairav was 5 meters away it cast the spell. A dark wave came towards Bhairav but he escaped by inches.

He immediately ran and jumped towards the goblin kings face. The goblin king raised his hammer and immediately striked down Bhairav. Bhairav got hit and thrown away but balanced himself while sliding on the legs. He did feel the pain of impact many times since he got hit when he is blind. He did not ask system for help because he is already in debt.

The goblin king roared and used his hammer to strike the ground. A wave of earthly shock came towards Bhairav but he jumped away. He understood that it is trying to keep him away to cast spells and cause status effects. Bhairav did not give the opportunity. He immediately ran and when goblin king tried to use its hammer to hit he jumped on the giant hammer. It immediately lifted the hammer but Bhairav was quick as he jumped onto the goblin king's face and stabbed in it's right eye.

It roared and immediately threw Bhairav away along with his sword. It received a damage of 40 points since the attack hit the vital organs. It started going berserk and chased Bhairav. Bhairav acted swiftly and escaped the hammer many times. He watched for the opening and dealt damage to every part of goblin king's body. After 7 minutes it's HP reached zero and it fell down. It's body disappeared and nearly 500 gold along with Health potions, Mana Potions, Restoration potions were present. Though it did not drop equipment but the experience he got was very high.

When Bhairav looked at the status window:

Name: Bhairav Haalahala

Class: Ranger/Gunslinger

Level: 1

Health: 25/25

Experience: 7000/10000

Stats:

STR: 19 DEX: 22 CON: 20 INT: 18 WIS: 17 LUCK: 13

Active Skills: Bow shot Lv2, Duel sword slash Lv3, Gun Barrage Lv2

Passive skills: Endurance (Max), Nature heal Lv5

Quest: Increase your Level to 10

Rewards: 800000 experience , +10 to every stat.

Penalty: All Stats reduced by 2

Hidden quest (Completed): Kill the goblin king

Rewards: Stats increased by +4, Skills: Aura Sense Lv1, Night Vision Lv1

Bhairav is shocked to see that he has finished a hidden quest and he got to skills and stats increased a lot. He is extremely happy at the outcome. He also got huge amount of Experience for the hidden quest. Since he has killed the boss of the goblin area he needs to get out from there for the monster area to get reset.

So he walked away up to 1 kilometer and took some rest. He decided to do it again because he needs to increase his levels to fight the bullies. After half an hour when he came back he saw goblins again.

He decided that he would at least reach Level 3 before he goes home. He started grinding and within few minutes after he killed the goblin king he reached Level 2.

Name: Bhairav Haalahala

Class: Ranger/Gunslinger

Level: 2

Health: 45/45

Experience: 2860/30000

Stats:

STR: 21 DEX: 24 CON: 22 INT: 20 WIS: 19 LUCK: 15

Active Skills: Bow shot Lv2, Duel sword slash Lv3, Gun Barrage Lv2

Passive skills: Endurance (Max), Nature heal Lv5, Aura Sense Lv1, Night Vision Lv1

Quest: Increase your Level to 10

Rewards: 800000 experience , +10 to every stat.

Penalty: All Stats reduced by 2

He went back kilometer away and only rested for 15 minutes. He felt that he is not losing stamina even during the fight and there are no cooldown times. He asked the system "System why do I not feel my stamina depleted or there are not cooldowns?"

"Host this system works in a different way from other systems. You have been gifted with infinite stamina as soon as you got the system. As for the cooldowns your basic attack skills will not have cooldown but if you acquire advanced skills the cooldowns will be very high compared to other systems" replied the system.

Though he is happy with infinite stamina, he felt mixed feelings towards the long cooldowns of advanced skills.

He entered the goblin area again and he started grinding again. The reason he was able to do this easily is because of Night Vision skill and Aura sense skill. He got hit by blind many times but he used these skills. He did this for another 6 times since after levelling up the experience which he got decreased by half. After doing 6 times the total gold coins he had were 4000 since he got extras sometimes. He had 200 HP and 200 mana potions.

He levelled up to level 3 and his stats increased. As for the equipment he stored them and decided to sell them along with exchange of gold.

Name: Bhairav Haalahala

Class: Ranger/Gunslinger

Level: 3

Health: 80/80

Experience: 1000/50000

Stats:

STR: 23 DEX: 26 CON: 24 INT: 22 WIS: 21 LUCK: 17

Active Skills: Bow shot Lv3, Duel sword slash Lv4, Gun Barrage Lv3

Passive skills: Endurance (Max), Nature heal Lv5, Aura Sense Lv3, Night Vision Lv3

Quest: Increase your Level to 10

Rewards: 800000 experience , +10 to every stat.

Penalty: All Stats reduced by 2

After achieving what he wanted he went back to the bus station and caught a bus to his home. He decided to exchange all the items and gold tomorrow for money because time is already 9pm. He talked to his mother about his grinding and ate food. After nearly 2 hours he slept because he searched for information on internet in the phone he has.